Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 31:6

6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry , Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God .

That mount Ephraim was a part of the lot of the ten Tribes is out of question, whether by Watchmen, be to be understood State Centinels set to give warning of dangers approaching, or Keepers of Vineyards, seemeth not much material.

It is said they should call upon men to go up to Zion, that is, to the Temple of the Lord at Ierusalem to worship the Lord. The only question is, what time this Prophesie was fulfilled? for though Iudah returned from the Captivity of Babylon, yet the ten Tribes (that we read of) never returned. Some think that it was fulfilled in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, when though the body of the ten Tribes returned not, yet many, particularly persons of those Tribes, did return and join themselves with those who returned out of the Captivity of Babylon, and rebuilt both the City and the Temple. Besides it appeareth from Iosephus l. 13. cap. 5.8. That the Demetrii gave Samaria, Galilee and Per[illegible: 2 letters] to the Iews. But the best Interpreters judge that this Prophesie was fulfilled under the Gospel; for both Galilee and Samaria received the Gospel as appeareth from, Acts 8.1.5.9.14. and 9.31.

Marginal references: Isa. 2.3. Mich. 4.2.